Renaissance Home Health Care Settles Medicaid Fraud Claims for $1M

New York-based Parkshore Home Health Care, dba Renaissance Home Health Care, a home health care services agency, agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that it provided unqualified home health aides to home health agencies, who in turn sent these unqualified aides into the homes of Medicaid recipients throughout New York City and then billed the Medicaid program for their services., the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.  The State of New York will receive $600,000 of the total.

Under the New York State Medicaid program, home health aides – who primarily care for elderly patients, administer medication and provide services such as catheter care, colostomy care and wound care – are required to complete a training program licensed by either the New York State Department of Health or the New York State Education Department.  Renaissance allegedly used home health aides who failed to receive the required training, resulting in Medicaid being billed for hundreds of thousands of dollars of services that these aides were not qualified to provide.

The lawsuit was originally filed by a whistleblower under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act.  Under the False Claims Act, a private citizen with knowledge of fraud against the government can sue on behalf of the government and share in the recovery.  The whistleblower’s share of the recovery is yet to be announced.

The Chanler Group, in association with the Hirst Law Group, represents whistleblowers who take action under the False Claims Act to report fraud committed against the federal and state governments.  We have years of experience representing whistleblower clients who expose every kind of fraud against the government, including health care fraud, contract fraud, and tax fraud.  Read more about our expertise in False Claims Act cases and how you can take action.